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From Neil Wilgus' ILLUMINOIDS and other sources
1964 -- Assassination of Jigme P. Dorji of Bhutan. Deaths
associated with Kennedy assassination: Betty Mooney MacDonald,
former Carousel Club stripper who had met Oswald at a party and
provided an alibi for Darrell Wayne Garner (who was accused of
wounding Tippit-killing witness Warren Reynolds), found hanged
in her cell after being arrested for fighting with her roommate;
Garner disappears, later found dead; Hank Killam, whose wife
Wanda was also a stripper at Ruby's club and who was a friend of
John Carter who once lived in Oswald's rooming house, evades
police for several months, then found with a slashed throat in
Pensacola, Florida; Gary Underhill, former LIFE editor and CIA
agent who begged friends to protect him because he knew who
killed Kennedy, found shot in left side of head -- ruled suicide
even though he was right-handed; Bill Hunter, LONG BEACH PRESS-
TELEGRAM reporter, who had met with Ruby's roommate George
Senator and Ruby's attorney Tom Howard at Ruby's apartment a
few hours after Oswald's murder, shot to death by a policeman
in Long Beach, California, police station, accidentally; Jim
Koethe, DALLAS TIMES-HERALD reporter also present at the meeting
in Ruby's apartment, killed by karate chop to the throat as he
emerged from the shower; Mary Meyer, painter, niece of forester
Gifford Pinchot and one of JFK's lovers (who allegedly funneled
LSD from an unsuspecting Timothy Leary to JFK), shot while
taking a walk in Washington, D.C. -- her secret diary
confiscated by her CIA friend James Angleton, later allegedly
destroyed. Robert Kennedy allegedly stalked in assassination
plot during his New York senatorial race by Frank Chavez,
associate of Ruby; Puerto Rican Teamster Ramon Ducos and Miguel
Cruz who was allegedly arrested with Oswald in New Orleans and
who claimed to have killed Kennedy; Chavez later killed by his
bodyguard, Miguel Cruz. Durham kills wife, terminated from Des
Moines police. Bilderberger meeting in Williamsburg, Virginia.
Congress passes the Tonkin Gulf resolution giving LBJ power to
make war on Vietnam. Virginia Miller, later known as "Blue
Dove," allegedly begins career as "disrupter" in the Amerindian
community; later serves as FBI informer on Indian activities.
REPORT OF THE WARREN COMMISSION ON THE ASSASSINATION OF
PRESIDENT KENNEDY released; Commission finds that Oswald, acting
alone, killed JFK.
1965 -- Assassination of Pierre Ngendandumwe of Burundi, Hassan
Ali Mansour of Iran, Malcolm X of US and Mario Mendez Montenegro
of Guatemala. On the day Malcolm was killed Pio Ghana de Pinto,
who had been working with him to coordinate poor Americans and
Third World Africans, was machine-gunned at his home in Africa.
Deaths associated with Kennedy assassination: Tom Howard, Ruby's
attorney who met with Senator and others after Oswald's death,
died of a heart attack after "acting strangely" for two days, no
autopsy performed; Rose Cherami, another Carousel stripper who
told a psychiatrist Kennedy had to be killed two days before it
happened and who said she'd seen Oswald at Ruby's club many
times, killed in a hit-and-run car accident near Big Sandy,
Texas; Dorothy Kilgallen, columnist and TV panel-show figure who
had a private half-hour interview with Ruby and said she was
going to break the Kennedy case wide open, found dead in her
apartment of an apparent overdose of alcohol and barbiturates;
William Whaley, Dallas cab driver who took Oswald from the Book
Depository to his rooming house after the assassination, killed
in an auto accident -- the first on-duty cabbie death in Dallas
since 1937; Karen Bennett Carlin, another Carousel entertainer
who reported seeing hate-ad signer Bernard Weissman at Ruby's
club and was the last known person to speak to Ruby before he
shot Oswald, died of gunshot wounds in the head in Houston.
Bilderberger meeting in Lake Como, Italy. Fighting in Vietnam
escalates into major war. US Army explores sites in the Middle
East for potential locations for nuclear devices intended to set
off earthquakes. Early prison behaviour mod program, CASE,
begins in Washington, D.C., boys school. Durham involved in
various Mafia activities and acts as informer for police,
possibly CIA. Fifth UFO flap year. Three Russian scientists
report receiving unexplained signals from space. California
highway inspector Rex Heflin, who took pictures of UFOs, visited
by MIB who took the original photographs and left; NORAD denies
they were their men, as claimed. Another ham radio operator,
Sidney Padrick, makes contact with UFO aliens.
1966 -- Assassination of Sir Abubakar Balewa of Nigeria, J.T.V.
Ironsi Aquiyi of Nigeria and Hendrick F. Verwoerd of South
Africa. Attempted assassination of James Meredith in US.
E. Howard Hunt serves as CIA contact in assassination plot
against Castro. Retired naval Lt. William Pitzer, who had
photographed the secret JFK autopsy and was beginning a job with
a TV station, found dead with a bullet in his head. Bilderberger
meeting in Wiesbaden, Germany. CIA begins weather modification
experiments over Cuba, later used in an attempt to ruin Castro's
sugar cane crop. Army simulated germ warfare project in New York
City.
1967 -- Assassination of American Nazi George Lincoln Rockwell
in Virginia. Che Guevara killed in Bolivia after CIA
questioning. Deaths associated with Kennedy assassination: Jack
Ruby, whose lawyers charged Dallas authorities with neglecting
his health, died of cancer while awaiting retrial; David Ferrie,
who was to be a key witness in the trial of Clay Shaw, found
dead in his locked apartment in New Orleans, ruled suicide
though how the ruptured blood vessel which induced his brain
hemorrhage could be self-inflicted was unexplained; Eladio del
Valle, a friend of Ferrie's who had hired him to fly bombing
missions over Cuba, found shot through the heart in a parking
lot in Miami, Florida, the same day Ferrie was killed. Dr. Mary
Sherman, another friend of Ferrie, shot in New Orleans, her body
partially burned by her killer. Bilderberger meeting in
Cambridge, England. Beginning of Clay Shaw trial; DA Jim
Garrison subpoenas Allen Dulles and ex-CIA employee Gordon Novel
to testify; both escape testimony. CIA's Operation Phoenix,
which was to assassinate and torture over 40,000 in Vietnam,
officially launched. Beginning of CIA's $21 million rain-making
program over Indochina which would make 2,600 sorties by 1972.
Approximate date La Costa Resort hotel built near San Clemente,
California: meeting place of Mob figures, Teamsters, politicians
and other big-wigs. Winthrop Rockefeller elected governor of
Arkansas. Black Panther party formed. Military takeover of
Greece allegedly executed by secret Operation Prometheus.
Australian Prime Minister disappears while swimming. Jim
Thompson, ex-OSS commando and "Silk King of Thailand,"
disappears on Easter Sunday; five months later his sister is
murdered. Rex Heflin again visited by MIB in connection with his
photos of California UFOs; similar MIB incidents in New York and
elsewhere; another MIB, Mr. Dixsun, allegedly visits Colorado
University UFO researcher Edward Condon and offers to help him
contact the space people.
1968 -- Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., in Memphis,
Tennessee, and Robert Kennedy in Los Angeles, California. Dr.
Nicholas Chetta, who performed autopsies on Ferrie and Dr.
Sherman, died of an apparent heart attack; Richard Carr, JFK
assassination witness about to testify in the Clay Shaw trial,
learns police have arrested a man planning to shoot him.
Bilderberger meeting in Mont Tremblant, Canada.
King assassination: James Earl Ray begins international travels
thanks to "Raoul" who sounds very much like his younger brother
Jerry Ray; FBI begins search for Ray as lone assassin, ignoring
considerable evidence of a conspiracy with Ray as patsy --
including reports of the mysterious "sausage and eggs man" who
was seen in the neighborhood of King's motel with a rifle before
and after the murder. Following King assassination black leader
Ron Karenga meets secretly with California Governor Reagan and
later with Los Angeles police chief Thomas Reddin. Spiro Agnew's
law-n-order handling of riots following King's assassination
brings him to national attention; Agnew allegedly chosen for
Nixon's vice-president to obtain CIA and Greek oil and shipping
firms' contributions. Robert Kennedy assassination: Sirhan
Sirhan, who wounded Kennedy in the shoulder pad, still doesn't
remember what happened but perhaps security guard Eugene Cesar,
who carried the same caliber gun as Sirhan, does; Kennedy was
shot in the back of the head at close range -- Cesar was close
behind him, Sirhan several feet in front; a "girl in the polka
dot dress," who earlier had been seen with Sirhan, reportedly
leaves the scene saying "We've shot him!" Nixon and Agnew
elected. Approximate date group called The Kaisers founded --
60 German-Americans allegedly planning to make Nixon a dictator.
FBI begins secret Cointelpro campaign against New Left and black
radicals. New York police BOSS unit founds local Black Panther
party using undercover agents. FBI informer William O'Neal
infiltrates Chicago Black Panthers, becomes chief of security,
Los Angeles police establish Criminal Conspiracy Section which
employs Donald DeFreeze, Louis Tackwood, Ron Karenga, the
Steiner brothers and other agents to infiltrate prison reform
and black power groups. CIA penetrates the Students for a
Democratic Society at Columbia College; National Caucus of Labor
Committees (NCLC) formed within the SDS. Congress creates LEAA
to fund state and local police programs. Behavior mod token
economy program set up in West Virginia youth center. Mystery
ship Scheersberg disappears between Antwerp and Genoa with 200
tons of uranium believed to have been taken to Israel.
Astronauts circling the moon interrupted by unexplained voices.
Unexplained distress signals from the mid-Pacific received by
radio stations, no ships found during search. UFOlogists
Steiger, Whitenour and Keel smeared during MIB visits in UFO
flap area. Continental drift theory confirmed.
1969 -- Assassination of Tom Mboya of Kenya and A.A. Shermarke
of Somalia. Clyde Johnson, who had allegedly attended parties
with Ferrie, Ruby and Oswald and who was beaten up to keep him
from testifying at the Clay Shaw trial, shot to death near
Greensburg, Louisiana. Richard Carr, while visiting in Atlanta,
is attacked by two men with knives. Fifteen Russian generals
die in "unrelated" incidents within a month's time. CIA-linked
Professor Thomas Rika disappears from Boulder, Colorado.
Bilderberger meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. First manned lunar
landing. Chappaquidick accident involving Edward Kennedy; Mary
Jo Kopechne dies. Trial of Shaw for conspiracy to assassinate
JFK; with Jim Garrison's witnesses dead or discredited by CIA or
FBI and other government agencies, Shaw was soon found not
guilty. Nixon issues Executive Order No. 11490 establishing
plans for dictatorial control in the event of a "national
emergency." NEW YORK TIMES reveals secret US bombing of
Cambodia; Nixon authorizes phone taps of Kissinger's staff to
discover leak. Chicago police and FBI raid Black Panthers, kill
Fred Hampton and Mark Clark (who were possibly drugged by
O'Neal); a series of earlier clashes had left other Chicago
Panthers dead. Black Panther leaders killed in Los Angeles by
the Steiner brothers, members of Karenga's United Slaves;
Panther headquarters raided by SWAT team. New York Panthers
indicted for conspiracy. CIA's Colton Westbrook returns from
Phoenix program in Vietnam to become involved in Black Culture
Association (BCA) program in California prisons. DeFreeze sent
to Vacaville, California prison, begins to undergo personality
changes. Pentagon and Department of Interior researchers study
methods of inducing earthquakes by injecting fluids into deep
wells. Alleged CIA spy Humberto Carrillo Colon arrested by Cuban
government which seized his Very Low Frequency transceiver and
coded messages describing strange lights, a minisubmarine and
other unexplained items. MIB "Carlos Allende" visits UFOlogists
Jim and Coral Lorenzen in Tucson, gives them a copy of the ONR
reprint of Jessup's CASE FOR THE UFO. Woodstock rock festival
in New York state draws well over half a million.